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Al-Ahram Weekly | Features | Reaching an impasse
Tags: Ahram-, Traffic, in, Cairo on 2008-05-13 -All Annotations (0) -About
more fromweekly.ahram.org.eg
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chronic problems
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almost 72 million and Egypt hosting two major events, the 38th International Book Fair and the 25th African Cup of Nations (ACN) championship
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ongestion disaste
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Ministry of Interior has announced that it has plans for traffic organisation to avoid major lockdown
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Major- General Fawzi Hassan, assistant to the minister of interior and head of the Traffic Department of Greater Cairo
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largest city in Africa;
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home to at least 18 million people. Around 3,500 newborns are added to this number each day.
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onkey-carts are still a prominent feature in many streets
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Surprisingly to some, many cars do the same; they use the lanes of oncoming traffic when their own lanes are full.
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chaotic
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said Mohamed Abdel-Hamid, manager of an international bank in Egypt
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Heliopolis to 6th of October City
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Watching the traffic, one would expect an accident every five minutes
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drive like madmen
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crazy to drive on the bridge nowadays,
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people drive wildly and yet there are thousands of traffic policemen out on the streets.
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instead of paying for maintenance to keep the traffic lights workin
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road fatalities in Egypt kill more than 7,000 people per year and wound nearly 35,000 others
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The question now is: can the streets of the city cope with the ever-increasing number of vehicles?
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under the twin pressures of traffic and population.
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Cairo is crumbling
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"Hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent on upgrading the safety and efficiency of the existing infrastructure in the short term, while mid- and long-term goals focus on increasing the width of roads,"
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less than 10 kilometres per hour
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dependence on public transportation is less than 65 per cent
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"Expanding streets and adding more fly-overs and tunnels is not always the solution to traffic congestion,"
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As of now, traffic in Cairo literally has to be seen to be believed.
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SpringerLink - Journal Article
Abdel-Aziz M. Kamal
Tags: Cairo, Traffic, Policemen on 2008-05-10 -All Annotations (0) -About
more fromwww.springerlink.com
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noisy and crowded traffic
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126 traffic policemen and 50 controls (office policemen).
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hazard for hearing
of those whose job necessitates continuous and long-term exposure to it -
ear protectors may be recommended for traffic policemen.
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Cairo Traffic
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home to at least 16 million people. 3,500 new ones are added each day.
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Red lights did not necessarily mean "stop" or even "slow", and it was the worst of mistakes to believe that a green "walk" light meant it was safe to cross the street
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inhospitable environment for pedestrians
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thankful for the large volume of traffic, which tended to slow everything down.
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t seemed faster at certain times of the day to walk than to take a taxi, and we liked the exercise
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Once our taxi passed a donkey-cart in a tunnel, and later we were amused to see a man trotting a camel over a major downtown bridge!
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them down the street and jumping in (or "on" when there was no more "in")
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10 piasters ($.04) fare, I guess you can't expect first class.
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The Cairo minglesections made those in Brussels seem well organized!
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Both were bargains at $.10 a ride.
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